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oy . eat! < “ * The State Department in a formal press.release dated June 9, 1950, stated: "As previously stated by the Department, neither the chart itself-nor.the reportof ingust 3, 1946. in which Senator McCarthy bas cited a reference to the chart, was. prepared hy,.or sent.to. the State.Department.by, the FBI and this has been yerified to the Department of State bo by the Départment of Justice.andby.the FRI. On the contrary, t the chart and the report were prepared within the Department of State itself. The chart was prepared on May 15, 1946 and the report on August 3, 1946. tT... Ranamtweant af Chata aanle 2n anananttatian 2410 HUPaElLUITLY Vb VVae aS LL aft VL VV OME Oh with the writer of the report, tith n tne former Security Officer under whose direction’ and in whose office the chart was prepared, with certain of his then subordinates familiar with the chart, and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and after reviewing working papers which are still in our file, has conclusively determined that the chart was not /] prepared or furnished by the FBI, but was prepared as an investigator's working document dn the Department of State in 1946 and by employees of the Department of State. Inter-~ view with the writer of the report, who is still in the Department, and the Security Officer with whom he had a conversation about the chart established that the writer of the _report drew from his conversation with the Security j Officer the unintentionally erroneous conclusion that the chart was prepared in the FBI." The Bureau in a letter to the Honorable James E. Webb Under- (| secretary of State, Departient of State; Washington, D: C., dated June eee 7) 1950, pointed out the following: "The comments made by Mr. Klaus repor in’ his -Fepork concerning this e alleged ‘FBI Chart,' es they appeared in the newspapers, were completely erroneous,_This Bureau did not..send such chart to the > State. Department, . i And, of course, made no was—indica eVasuecvion. GL. iniormation-as- ted #1 VilS 2 Epes oom sortoR: This is for your information. fy ~{